Chandigarh, May 5 -- A special CBI court in Chandigarh on Monday took up a series of procedural matters in the bribery case involving accused IPS officer Harcharan Singh Bhullar and co-accused Kirshanu Sharda, with hearings now scheduled later this week.

Bhullar, a 2009-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and former DIG (Ropar range), was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on October 16, 2025, after a scrap dealer alleged the senior police official, through a middleman, Kirshanu, demanded the bribe money to settle an FIR registered at Sirhind police station. According to ED findings, substantial cash deposits and bank transfers were routed through accounts of property dealers and associated persons with no commen...